Bulletin: Four More Filipinos Onboard Diamond Princess Test Positive for nCoV

10 February 2020 —The DFA, through the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo, confirms that four other Filipinos aboard Diamond Princess tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (nCoV) yesterday, 9 February 2020, bringing to five the number of positive cases. They are now being treated in hospitals in Japan. 

The four Filipinos, who are all crew members, are among the six newly-confirmed cases of the virus since the vessel was docked off the port of Yokohama, Japan on 4 February.

The Embassy is closely coordinating with Japanese authorities, and is in constant communication with the Filipinos still onboard, to provide them all possible assistance. END